The Strangest Notherns: Mysterious Adventures
Story Comics produced Mysterious Adventures #1 (March 1951), which featured “The Horrible Fangs of Professor Prome”. The artist and author are not known. This rather Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
The Strangest Northerns: Hand of Fate Style
The Hand of Fate #18 (June 1953) featured a one-page Northern called “A Hand of Fate Mystery #22”. The author and artist are not known. Read More
Wonder Woman/Conan: Sword & Sorcery Superheroes
Wonder Woman and Conan teamed up as Sword & Sorcery Superheroes a few year ago back in 2017. The rivalry that existed between Marvel and Read More
Omha Abides
Omha Abides was a novel I had never noticed before. I stumbled across a copy at a used bookstore and had to have it. The Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) wrote two strange Northerns for the same book: The Chase of Saint-Castin: and other Stories of the French in the New Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Haunted Island
“The Haunted Island” is a different kind of Northern by Algernon Blackwood. It’s not set in the far north or in a fishing vessel off Read More
Neal Adams and The House of Mystery Covers
The story of Neal Adams and The House of Mystery covers is an interesting interlude in a long history. The House of Mystery ran for Read More
Beyond the Farthest Star: The Comic
If you missed the last one… Beyond the Farthest Star (1942) is not Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most famous book. In fact, it is a bit Read More
Der Orchideengarten: Germany’s Weird Tales
Der Orchideengarten (Phantastische Blätter) translates to The Orchids-garden: Fantastic Pages. It was a horror magazine that was published in German between 1919 and 1921. It Read More
Link: Of Serpents Men & Worms
Robert E. Howard’s Serpent Men first appeared in his Sword & Sorcery tale “The Shadow Kingdom” (Weird Tales, August 1929). As a piece of fantasy, Read More